The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 27, 1918, Page 21

Bluffed Nine Iowa Farmers Business Interests Make Much of a Ready-Made Letter of %qemgnatlon Written by a Subservient Editor =z]INE Iowa farmers who were unknown yesterday are today basking in the full glare of publicity. Their names are being printed all over .the Northwest in capital letters, as though they had been rescued from a burning steamboat, or had performed some deed of heroism. These nine have withdrawn from the ' Nonpartisan league, separated themselves from the farmers and allied themselves with the bankers and implement dealers who compose the Greater Iowa association. They have resigned from the Nonpartisan league in a letter composed for them by the editor of the local paper. League officials are not used to re- ceiving resignations. It was a new experience. Placing them side by side with several hundred-applications for membership that came on the same - mail the manager wrote to an organ- “izer to drop around and see what was the matter.- This is what the organ- izer found. For several days a_ mysterious stranger with red whiskers was driv- ing about looking for disaffected League members. He carried in his pocket a mnicely written resignation from the League which had been com- posed by the local editor. By crafti- ness he managed to get three signa-- tures. He left his document at the local bank where the banker managed to pick up six more. This was the re- sult of an intensive campaign against the League in one Iowa county. After- the banker and the editor and- the red-whiskered stranger were satis- fied they could get no more the names of the nine were sent to the secretary of the Greater Iowa association. He at once mailed the resignation and . 51gnatures to the papers of Iowa and of some other League states. It was published by anti-League papers as evidence that the League was falling into decay. But the strangest of all places in which we find it reprinted is in the anti-League papers in North Dakota, North Da- kota, the state in which Iowa farmers are told that the farmers are leaving the League in droves! Yet when the North Dakota papers wanted to find resignations they had to go clear to Iowa to get them. The same might be said of Minnesota papers who would love to print resignations from Minne- sota farmers. ' PROFITEERS GOT HIS HIDE Brady, Mont. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Am enclosing an editorial from the Scientific Farmer. The article, “A Fair Division or No Beets,” by Mr. Haste seems to brand him as a Leaguer, whether. he is or not. I am a firm believer in President ~ Wilson and think that he is doing all he can to improve condi- tions, and he sure- ly has plenty to work on. I just received a =~ check from Great Falls for a good big cowhide (green salted) that weighed 75 pounds. The check amounted to $4.30. I don’t know how many dollars’ worth of shoes the hide will make, but I do know that you can’t buy one pair for $4.30. There must be some profiteers mixed up in it. W. E. BALLARD. Government Considers Low Fares for the Harvest Season (Ceatinued from pege 14) vest; and the railway fare has been found teo large a sum to deduct from the worker’s wages. “The world-wide need of food would amply justify the granting of free transportation to agricultural work- ers, although this is not now sug- gested.” - - If the rallroad administration adopts the plan, the total number of trips affected by the half-fare arrangement would not be more, he estimates, than 5,000,000. 'This is less than a half of 1 per cent of the normal. passenger traffic. It would mean the payment of $1,650,000 to the railroads for these cheap tickets. The department of la- bor estimates that “the productive labor of the agricultural workers whom this reduction would render available would produce not less than 280,000 additional 80-ton carloads of foodstuffs, the freight return from which weuld exceed $16,000,000, while its economic and war value can in no way be computed.” Of course this half-fare scheme would not be open to every one who chose to tell the ticket agent that he was a farm hand. The cheap tickets would be sold only to persons present- ing a traveling card or book issued by the United States employment serv- ice, identifying him. Post . suggests: “That each agri- cultural worker shall be given by the United States émployment service an identifying book or card containing a brief description of the worker, the date of first outgoing travel, and _spaces in which all farmers for Whom the worker has performed services, ' or. the county agent, shall make ap-' propriate entry. After the worker has served not less than four weeks in agricultural labor, he may present the book, and if the railway agent is satisfied that such labor has been per- formed, such agent may take up and cancel the book and issue a return ticket to such worker, charging half- fare therefor, transmitting -the can- celed book as .a voucher for the half- fare unpaid by the worker.” This is a very limited privilege, and not nearly so favorable to the farm laborer as is the arrangements on the Canadian railroads. Post admits that. But he believes it is liberal enough to meet the situation this year. This is not the only step that the department of labor is planning, to do its share in assisting the farmers this season. 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